Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£37,259 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS trusts, providing a wide range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care nationally. We are proud of our reputation for clinical excellence, teaching, and research, and are part of King’s Health Partners, an accredited UK academic health sciences centre.

As a Programme Support Officer, you will play a vital role in delivering innovator support programmes including the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator and other specialist initiatives supporting early-stage digital health businesses and healthcare system leaders. This is an exciting opportunity to join a passionate, growing team dedicated to accelerating digital transformation in the NHS.

You will provide high quality administrative and project support across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment, working closely with programme directors, project managers, clinical directors, and other teams such as communications, evaluation, and informatics. Your role will include organising large-scale events, supporting project delivery and evaluation, stakeholder management, and maintaining project and customer relationship management systems.

DigitalHealth.London and the Health Innovation Network South London connect academics, NHS providers, commissioners, local authorities, patients, and industry partners to accelerate the adoption of innovations that improve patient outcomes and support a sustainable NHS. Our work spans multiple clinical and innovation themes, serving a population of 3.5 million people across twelve South London boroughs.

Our values are Brave, Kind, Open, Different, and Together, and we are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment.

Experience
- Proven experience in project or programme management
- Experience working in a high-pressure environment with effective prioritisation and coordination of varied workloads to meet deadlines
- Experience organising large events or conferences is desirable
- Experience in health, local government, or university settings and familiarity with associated procedures is advantageous
- Experience using contact/content management systems and online collaboration portals is desirable

About you
- Proactive, highly organised, and able to work autonomously without close supervision
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Ability to manage budgets effectively
- Professional and supportive when dealing with telephone and other queries
- Enthusiastic with a willingness to learn new systems and processes

Qualifications
- Educated to graduate level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience
- Excellent computer literacy, including Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, and PowerPoint
- Willingness and ability to learn new software packages and databases as required